Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website电子书

Learning Mambo : A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website

Table of Contents

Learning Mambo : A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

What This Book Covers

What You Need for This Book

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the Example Code for the Book

Errata

Questions

1. An Introduction to Mambo

What Mambo Can Do for You

The Visitor Experience

The Management Experience

What Exactly is Mambo?

Component-Based Architecture

Templated Interface

User and Permission Management

Mambo as an Open-Source Content Management System

Open Source

Content Management System

Getting Help in the Mambo Community

Forks, the Mambo Foundation, and Joomla!

Zak Springs Golf Club Website

The Client

Staff

President

Administrative Staff

Golf Staff

Hospitality

Requirements

Key Objectives of the Site

General Functionality of the Site

Specific Functionality of the Site

Permissions and Privileges Required

Might Have... One day

Summary

2. Setting up the Development Environment

Downloading Mambo

Mambo Lite and Complete

Extracting Mambo

Putting Mambo Files into the Web Server Root

Installing Mambo

Database Setup

Site Details

Testing the Installation

Creating a Database User

Switching to the New Database User

Still Having Problems?

Summary

3. Your Frontpage

Your Mambo Site

Menus

Modules

Components

Templates

Viewing Site Content

Becoming the Administrator

Previewing your Site

Managing the Frontpage

Publishing Content

Ordering Lists

Restricting User Access

Editing an Article

You can Check Out Any Time, But You can Never Leave

Editing with the HTML Editor

Adding Images

Adding Links

Email Addresses, Spam, and Mambots

Controlling Article Display on the Frontpage

Summary

4. Configuring the Site

Your Site, Your Database

Starting Afresh

Visiting the Administration Area

Global Configuration of your Site

How the Options are Stored

The Site Tab

Locale

Content

Database

Configuring the Web Server

Sending Mail

Cache

Visitor Statistics

Making Mambo-Search Engine Friendly

Metadata

Private Messages

Summary

5. Managing Media, Modules, and Components

Managing Media

Managing Modules

Installed Modules

Managing Site Modules

Editing Module Properties

Module Details

Pages/Items

Module Parameters

Adding a New Module Instance to your Site

Adding an RSS Feed Module

Adding a Custom HTML Module

Creating a Module Copy

Deleting Module Instances

Administrator Modules

Component Management

Installing Mambo Add-ons with the Universal Installer

Installing Directly from a URL

Installing the ExtCal Event Component

Installing an ExtCal Module from a URL

Interlude: Web Links

Creating Web Link Categories

Creating Web Links

Summary

6. Managing Menus and Templates

Menus

Menu Items

Menu Item Types

Content Menu Type

Components Menu Type

Links Menu Type

Miscellaneous Menu Type

Adding a New Menu Entry

Add Menu Item Page

News Feeds Component, Link, Category

Planning the Zak Springs Menu Structure

Creating the Bottom Menu

Assigning the Menu to a Module Position

The Wrong Homepage?

Managing Templates

Assigning Templates to Pages

Summary

7. Managing Users

User Groups

The Special Ones

Ingredients of a User

Registering as a User

Front-End User Goodies

User Management

User Details

Login Module Configuration

Adding a Logout Link

Super Administrator Details

Creating New Users at the Back end

The Registration Process

Registration Options

Managing Other Administrators

The Administrator

The Manager

Summary of Permissions for Back-end Groups

Zak Springs Users and Groups

Summary

8. Managing Content

Organizing Content

Why Organize Content?

Planning the Zak Springs Content Structure

Creating Sections

Zak Springs Sections

Section Manager Page

Creating Categories

Zak Springs Categories

Category Manager Page

Entering Content

Content Items Manager Page

Creating a New Content Item

Adding the Item to a Menu

Adding Images to the Item

Keywords and Description for SEO

Publishing Information

Controlling How the Item is Displayed

Deleting Content Items

The Trash Manager

Archiving Content Items

Different Views of Content

Single Item (Link) View

Table Views

Content Category View

Content Section View

Assigning Templates to Table Views

Blog Views

Static Content

Managing Sections

Copying Sections

Deleting Sections

Managing Categories

Copying Categories to Different Sections

Moving Categories to Different Sections

Deleting Categories

Summary

9. Front-End Publishing Workflow

Authoring Content

Can't Find the Save Button?

Finding Submitted Content Items

The Author Notification Process

Editing Content

Publishing Content

Front-End User-Submitted Content

Adding Links to Submit Content

Creating a Better Publishing Workflow

Managing Comments

Preventing Comment Spam

Viewing and Approving Comments

Summary

10. Finishing the Site Off with Other Extensions

Standard Extensions

Polls

News Feeds

Syndicate

Banners

ExtCal Event Component

User-Submitted Events

Deleting Events

ExtCal Modules

MamboBoard Forums Component

Forum Organization

Board Configuration

Creating Forums

Adding a Menu Link to the Forums

zOOm Media Gallery Component

Creating Galleries

Adding Images

Summary

11. Customizing a Template

What You Need

Template File Structure

Creating a New Template

Changing the Template Details

The Template File Itself

No Logic Here

Links to Images

No Layout Here

XHTML Compliance

Customizing the Page Layout

Replacing the Header Graphic

Changing the Page Background and Fonts

Changing the Main Content Area

Changing the Background Color of the Columns

Customizing the Read More Link

Formatting the Content Items

Adding the Bottom Menu

Customizing the Modules

Spacing Out the Modules

Changing the Module Headers

Customizing the Menus

Changing the Menu Hover Color

Changing the Menu Item Borders

Highlighting the Current Menu Item

Finishing Off

Creating a Template Package

Summary

12. Deploying and Running Your Site

Overview of the Process

Checking Server Requirements

File System Permissions

Uploading the Mambo Code via FTP

Setting Permissions for configuration.php

Creating the Database

Running the Web Installer

Migrating the Locally Created Database

Backing Up the Database

Restoring the Database to the Remote Server

Replacing the Site Configuration

Resetting the Permissions of Your Installation

Rename the Super Administrator Account

Setting Permissions for Mambo Operations

Configuration Settings

Media Uploading

Caching

Database Backup Permissions

Installing Extensions or Templates

Installing Extensions without ZLIB

Restricting Access to Folders

Restricting Access to the Administrator Area

Summary

A. Installing XAMPP

Index